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Stability is crucial in matching markets, yet in many real-world settings - from hospital residency allocations to roommate assignments - full stability is either impossible to achieve or can come at the cost of leaving many agents…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Frederik Glitzner , David Manlove

In the stable marriage problem, a set of men and a set of women are given, each of whom has a strictly ordered preference list over the acceptable agents in the opposite class. A matching is called stable if it is not blocked by any pair of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Ágnes Cseh , Klaus Heeger

The stable matching problem is a prototype model in economics and social sciences where agents act selfishly to optimize their own satisfaction, subject to mutually conflicting constraints. A stable matching is a pairing of adjacent…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephan Mertens

We study deviations by a group of agents in the three main types of matching markets: the house allocation, the marriage, and the roommates models. For a given instance, we call a matching $k$-stable if no other matching exists that is more…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Haris Aziz , Gergely Csáji , Ágnes Cseh

Super-stability is one of the stability concepts in the stable matching problem with ties. It is known that there may not exist a super-stable matching, and the existence of a super-stable matching can be checked in polynomial time. In this…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Naoyuki Kamiyama

Gale and Shapley introduced a matching problem between two sets of agents where each agent on one side has an exogenous preference ordering over the agents on the other side. They defined a matching as stable if no unmatched pair can both…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Felipe Garrido-Lucero , Rida Laraki

The stable marriage problem is a well-known problem of matching men to women so that no man and woman who are not married to each other both prefer each other. Such a problem has a wide variety of practical applications ranging from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-09-25 Maria Pini , Francesca Rossi , Brent Venable , Toby Walsh

Focusing on the bipartite Stable Marriage problem, we investigate different robustness measures related to stable matchings. We analyze the computational complexity of computing them and analyze their behavior in extensive experiments on…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Kimon Boehmer , Niclas Boehmer

The Stable Marriage Problem (SMP) is a well-known matching problem first introduced and solved by Gale and Shapley (1962). Several variants and extensions to this problem have since been investigated to cover a wider set of applications.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-05-03 Sofie De Clercq , Steven Schockaert , Martine De Cock , Ann Nowé

Adaptivity to changing environments and constraints is key to success in modern society. We address this by proposing "incrementalized versions" of Stable Marriage and Stable Roommates. That is, we try to answer the following question: for…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Robert Bredereck , Jiehua Chen , Dušan Knop , Junjie Luo , Rolf Niedermeier

In the Stable Marriage problem. when the preference lists are complete, all agents of the smaller side can be matched. However, this need not be true when preference lists are incomplete. In most real-life situations, where agents…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Sushmita Gupta , Pallavi Jain , Sanjukta Roy , Saket Saurabh , Meirav Zehavi

In their seminal work on the Stable Marriage Problem (SM), Gale and Shapley introduced a generalization of SM referred to as the Stable Roommates Problem (SR). An instance of SR consists of a set of $2n$ agents, and each agent has…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Will Rosenbaum

In the Stable Roommates problem, we seek a stable matching of the agents into pairs, in which no two agents have an incentive to deviate from their assignment. It is well known that a stable matching is unlikely to exist, but a stable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Frederik Glitzner , David Manlove

In a stable matching problem there are two groups of agents, with agents on one side having their individual preferences for agents on another side as a potential match. It is assumed silently that agents can freely and costlessly ``switch"…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Boris Pittel , Kirill Rudov

In the well-studied Stable Roommates problem, we seek a stable matching of agents into pairs, where no two agents prefer each other over their assigned partners. However, some instances of this problem are unsolvable, lacking any stable…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Frederik Glitzner , David Manlove

In stable matching, one must find a matching between two sets of agents, commonly men and women, or job applicants and job positions. Each agent has a preference ordering over who they want to be matched with. Moreover a matching is said to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Andrei Constantinescu , Marc Dufay , Diana Ghinea , Roger Wattenhofer

Many important stable matching problems are known to be NP-hard, even when strong restrictions are placed on the input. In this paper we seek to identify structural properties of instances of stable matching problems which will allow us to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-14 Kitty Meeks , Baharak Rastegari

An instance of a strongly stable matching problem (SSMP) is an undirected bipartite graph $G=(A \cup B, E)$, with an adjacency list of each vertex being a linearly ordered list of ties, which are subsets of vertices equally good for a given…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-03 Pratik Ghosal , Adam Kunysz , Katarzyna Paluch

We study the existence of stable matchings when agents have choice correspondences instead of preference relations. We extend the framework of \cite{chambers2017choice} by weakening the path independence assumption. For many-to-many…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-05-20 Varun Bansal , Mihir Bhattacharya , Ojasvi Khare

The stable matching problem sets the economic foundation of several practical applications ranging from school choice and medical residency to ridesharing and refugee placement. It is concerned with finding a matching between two disjoint…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Angelina Brilliantova , Hadi Hosseini